Author: Clement Wong

The first bridge book on winning by skillful bidding and play surrounding the queens from queen camouflage to queen sacrifice (both real and sham) to queen defence inspired by the author s 1993 Bols Tip of Queening your Defence. Covers bidding, declarer play, opening leads and responses, exit cards, entries, and defense with strong trumps. Clear, to-the-point analyses of nearly 100 hands, many played by international experts.

Paperback: 156 pages: 2012

CONTENTS

Chapter 1&nbsp The Explorer

• An off-shape double
• A long-suit double
• A formula for 3NT
• Stranger in the night
• Running with Forrest Gump
• Spotting spot cards
• Landy for a brave heart
• Michaels with a Yarborough
• The three-five preempt
• An unbalanced opening
• Norwegian wood
• Slam with a single ace
• Jump before you leap
• Raising a double small slam
• A grand opening
• The law of grand slam

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Chapter 2&nbsp Treasure Your Queen

• A perfect painting
• A redundant finesse
• Asymmetry
• A miniskirt finesse
• Missing a U-turn
• Blowing your horn
• A supernatural finesse
• A supernatural scissors
• The queen sacrifice
• A Trojan horse
• Helen of Troy
• Unreachable sky
• An American duck
• Queen camouflage 1993
• Queen camouflage 2001
• Queen camouflage 2010

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Chapter 3&nbsp A Golden Opening

• Queening your lead
• Queen identity
• Trapping a king
• A princely jack
• An impossible dream
• A possible dream
• Maximisation
• An honourable king
• A humiliated king
• A foolish lead
• A disturbing lead
• An impossible singleton
• A dauntless assumption
• A duck in the mirror
• A vulnerable duck
• A righteous lead
• Clashing your own aces

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Chapter 4&nbsp A Ruffing Master Plan

• The detective
• Jackstraw
• An unnecessary surplus
• Flying over a Great Wall
• An illusory crossruff
• A law of physics
• Beauty with a mask
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